Is this worth going to the vet
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Bmjo
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Yes i feel like I’m back at square one
Bmjo
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I’m assuming a vet appointment should be scheduled
One minute your chameleons eyes are closed ...then their open...then their closed...
One minute your chameleons is eating...then one minute he's not...then he is again....
In some of the photos he looks very sick...I don't know what's wrong with him because no answers are very clear that you give.
IMHO you need to take it to a good exotics vet AND get your husbandry/care right for him or you're going to lose him. They don't keep giving you more chances for long.
He needs not to be handled a lot (stresses them out if you force it on them)...he needs proper lighting (a long 5.0 UVB tube light and an incandescent household white light bulb of a wattage to produce a basking temperature of 85 F or slightly higher..no lights at night...no glass or plastic between the UVB light and him) and proper temperatures (basking as I said...rest of the cage in the mid to high 70's during the day and cooler at night)...and hydration (mister and dripper both run long enough to get him drinking) and supplements (phosphorus-free calcium at almost every feeding, phosphorus-free calcium/D3 twice a month and vitamins twice a month) and well fed/gutloaded insects crickets, superworms, roaches, locusts given my usual list if greens, veggies and a small amt of fruit), etc.
I don't have any more advice to offer you...if you don't get things right and take it to the vet asap if you can't get his issues solved your going to lose it.
If you don't want to put the effort into it then look in here for a rescue and give it to them so they can help it.
Good luck with it!
One minute your chameleons is eating...then one minute he's not...then he is again....
In some of the photos he looks very sick...I don't know what's wrong with him because no answers are very clear that you give.
IMHO you need to take it to a good exotics vet AND get your husbandry/care right for him or you're going to lose him. They don't keep giving you more chances for long.
He needs not to be handled a lot (stresses them out if you force it on them)...he needs proper lighting (a long 5.0 UVB tube light and an incandescent household white light bulb of a wattage to produce a basking temperature of 85 F or slightly higher..no lights at night...no glass or plastic between the UVB light and him) and proper temperatures (basking as I said...rest of the cage in the mid to high 70's during the day and cooler at night)...and hydration (mister and dripper both run long enough to get him drinking) and supplements (phosphorus-free calcium at almost every feeding, phosphorus-free calcium/D3 twice a month and vitamins twice a month) and well fed/gutloaded insects crickets, superworms, roaches, locusts given my usual list if greens, veggies and a small amt of fruit), etc.
I don't have any more advice to offer you...if you don't get things right and take it to the vet asap if you can't get his issues solved your going to lose it.
If you don't want to put the effort into it then look in here for a rescue and give it to them so they can help it.
Good luck with it!
Rango♡Toto
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Mine also still had skin on his his knee from his last shed (about 3 weeks ago). came off yesterday. It helps alot if you wet them good an put them in the sun . We do that to help them shed .
Wet , sun , wet , sun, wet, sun. With this method mine is completely shed in about 5 hours. Normaly if the skin starts to get loose at his eyes my husband put his finger over tha chams eyes and the rub it of by self.
Wet , sun , wet , sun, wet, sun. With this method mine is completely shed in about 5 hours. Normaly if the skin starts to get loose at his eyes my husband put his finger over tha chams eyes and the rub it of by self.
